Bitcoin

wikipedia:Bitcoin (Oct 2008, BTC) is based on secp256k1 elliptic curve encrypted with the ECDSA algorithm.

• https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/

• Bitcoin genesis block: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"

The PoW requires miners to find a number called a nonce, such that when the block content is hashed along with the nonce, the result is numerically smaller than the network's difficulty target.

• Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
• BTC
• Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)

• brew install bitcoin

Activities

• Read Bitcoin protocol documentation https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_documentation
• Review wikipedia:List of bitcoin companies

Related terms

• Satoshi Nakamoto satoshin@gmx.com (1&1)
• Proof of: SHA-256
• MicroStrategy
• "Bitcoin is almost as bs as fiat money" Elon Musk quotes
• Grayscale
• Taproot
• BTC.b
• Bitcoin.org
• Bitcoin address
• Base58Check encoding
• UTXO
• IBIT

See also

• Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), blockchain.com, Coinbase, Cryptocurrency wallet, Ripple, Grayscale, Hummingbot, USD Coin, Zcash, Polkadot, bitcoin-cli, BSV, Bitmain, Hal Finney, List of bitcoin forks, Lightning Network, Minsc, SegWit, Bitcoin mining, BIP, Bech32, Ordinals, SPV, Bitcoin testnet, Satoshi Nakamoto, BRC-20, Bitcoin genesis block, Bitcoin address